Order
Caprimulgiformes
Family
Trochilidae
Genus
Leucippus
 
Neotropical Birds
Version  1.0
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Tumbes Hummingbird Leucippus baeri

Thomas S. Schulenberg and Carolyn W. Sedgwick
Version: 1.0 — Published February 20, 2015

Conservation

Tumbes Hummingbird has a restricted geographic range, but the range is not so restricted as to trigger a conservation assessment of Vulnerable. The population trend for this species is not known, but it is not believed to be in a steep decline. Consequently the IUCN Red List conservation status of this species is evaluated as Least Concern (BirdLife International 2015). Tumbes Hummingbird is included in Appendix II of CITES, as is the case with all hummingbirds, regardless of rarity (except for Hook-billed Hermit Glaucis dohrnii, which is Endangered and is on Appendix I of CITES).

The relative abundance of Tumbes Hummingbird is assessed as fairly common in Peru (Parker et al. 1996, Schulenberg et al. 2010) and as "uncommon to locally (seasonally?) fairly common" but local in Ecuador (Ridgely and Greenfield 2001a).

Effects of human activity on populations

Human activity has little effect on Tumbes Hummingbird, at least in the short term; no threats to this species are identified by BirdLife International (2015). With its restricted geographic range, however, it remains potentially vulnerable to any increase in habitat loss, degradation, or fragmentation.

Recommended Citation

Schulenberg, T. S. and C. W. Sedgwick (2015). Tumbes Hummingbird (Leucippus baeri), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.tumhum1.01
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